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Bio 224- blood LAB quiz
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
09/16/2008

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Term
What percent of the blood is plasma?
Definition
55%
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What percent of blood has other formed elements?
Definition
45%
Term
Monocytes
Definition

Look: Very large U shaped nucleus

#100-700 per ml

Live a month

 

Function: phagocytosis: develop into macrophages in tissue

Term
Neutrophil
Definition

Looks like: granules, with cytoplasm

# 3,000-7,000

Live: 6hrs-few days

 

Function: phagocytize bacteria

Term
Lymphocyte
Definition

Looks: very spherical with little cytoplasm

#1500-3000 ml

 

function: most immune respose by direct cell attack

Term
Basophil
Definition


Looks: blue, no plasma visible

#20-50 ml

Lives: few hrs to few days

 

function: release histamine, contain heparin

Term
Eosinophil
Definition

Looks: has a bilobed nucleus

# 100-400 in ml

Lives: 8-12 days

 

Function: Kills parasitic worms, inactivates inflammatory chemicals of allergy

Term
Agranulocytes
Definition
Lymphocyte and Monocyte
Term
Granulocytes
Definition
Neutrophil, esosinophile, basophil
Term
platelets
Definition

look: fragments containing granules

#150000-400000

Live:5-10 days

 

Function: seal tears in vessels, clot.

Term
erythrocytes
Definition

Red blood cells

 # 4-6 million per ml

live: 15 days

 

function: carry O2 transport Co2

Term
Leukocytes
Definition

White blood cells

#4000-11000

 

function: denfense and immunity

 

 

Term
Hematocrit: (PVC)
Definition

PVC: packed cell volume

used to diagnose anemia, dehydration, polycythemia

 

3 layers: plasma, buffy coat, erythrocytes

 

 

Term

Normal Hematocrit levels

Definition

Males: 40-54%

 

Females: 37-47%

Term
A blood type
Definition

Has A antigens

Has anti-B antibodies

 

Can recieve O and A and AB

 

Term
B Blood Type
Definition

Has B antigens

Has Anti A antibodies

 

B Gives to B and AB

B recieves from O and B

Term

Non A non B

 

(AB) blood type

Definition

Has A and B antigens

Has NO antibodies

 

Recieves from all of them

Gives only to AB

Term
Type O blood
Definition

Has no antigens

Has anti A and Anti B antibodies

 

Universal donor

single recipient.

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